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Subject: Philip Burnett Franklin Agee Punt  - vale

1. NAME OF OFFICER OR EMPLOYEE Elsie 1. Scaletti

2... PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE OF SUBJECT WAC. .

_ Were you ever personally acquainted with him?

emp eneeha me

, Yes or No _ yes . If you.were never personally
j: acquainted with him have you acquired anv information of

a personal nature concerning him through other persons?
Yes or No , Give details including dates,

by months and years as. best you can recall, ‘circumstances,

purpose and nature of any relationship vou may have had -

{ _. with him and provide all data relating to his character
! - or personality, {llustrating briefly with any-stories 07 A,
: other information acquired as a result of your. own /

relationship with him or which might have been acquired
from others. oo.

RETURN TO CIA
See attached memo Background Use Only

1 _ Do Not Reproduce

3. SUBJECT'S KNOWLEDGE OF YOU, PROJECTS, OR OPERATIONS IN
WHICH YOU PARTICIPATED .

“On the basis of your personal association with

Subject, either official or social, or, on the basis of
what you know or believe him to be knowledgeable of,

out line the nature and extent of information you believe
he could provide an opposition intelligence service as to
(a) your identity as an intelligence officer or employee,
(b) your personal background and experience including
places of assignments, and (c) operations in which you
participated in some way. (Cryptonyms should be employed
when known, The nature of the operations in any event
should be briefly but sufficiently described to lead to
their identification, with the dates or periods involved
and any comments OT observations as to their. success or
failure.)

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. OTHER AGE" CY PERSONNEL | : 7 oe .

List other: Agency personnel’ or former: persome!,
who on the basis of your own personal knowledge or
belief, had official or social contact with Subject.

Give brief information as to the period and nature of
such relationship for each.

See memo. attached.

OTHER U. S, GOVERNMENT PERSONNEL

List all other U. S. Government personnel who, on
the basis of your own personal knowledge or belief, had

particularly close official or social contact with

Subject. Identify the Bureau, Department, Agency or
Office with which each such person was emploved at the
time of the relationship and. give brief information
concerning the period and nature of such relationship
for each. Be

See memo attached

OTHER PERSONS

- List all other persons who irrespective of nation-
ality, sex, or employment are known or believed to have

had intimate or particularly close assocfation with him

and brief information concerning the identity and occu-
pation of such persons, your knowledge of such persons,

and the period and nature of the relationship of such
person with Subject. Include also the names of all.

American and foreign newspaper people with whom he is
known or believed to have had personal contact irre-

spective of the extent or closeness of their relation-
ship. Give names with brief information as to the period
and nature of such relationship for each.

{ know of none.

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7. HOSTILE INTELLIGENCE CONNECTIONS

Can you provide any information of any kind
tending to establish that Subject may have been
sympathetic to hostile ideologies or had contact
with and was cooperating with a hostile intelligence
service. Yes or No no « If yes, give
full details, . ,

Signed: on, OL a

Dated : 10 July 1972

*This is an Outline only of information desired. If vou
either knew the Subject or have any information from other
sources on any of the points contained in the outline, a
separate memorandum is needed with each paragraph. thereof
keyed to those in this outline. If you neither knew the
Subject nor have any information of the kind requested in —
any section of the outline (and only in such instance)
negative entries may be entered under all sections, and the
outlined returned after signing and dating. The Signed and
dated outline will thus serve as a memorandum for the files.

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SUBJECT: Philip Burnett Franklin Agee

NAME OF OFFICER OR EMPLOYEE: _Elsie 1. Scaletti
PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE OF SUBJECT: - 7

| knew Phil during the entire time he was in
Branch | at Headquarters, and during his tour in
Mexico. We came to Mexico PCS at the same time. —
This means {| knew him from. 1965 until he resigned.
In Headquarters our relationship was limited to

business in the office, and that. was‘‘not very:-

frequent. We sat in different rooms. He handled $B
matters. 1 did the routing of all Branch _
correspondence which meant 1 decided wkat he was to

-see--this was anything affecting Soviet/Satellite/
Chinese matters.. My main.areas. of responsibility

were in the support field, Even thougn we were both
processing out at the same time, we did not exchange
stories much. However, since | traveled as a
"Tourist" and was not therefore allowed to bring
anything into Mexico, Phil offered to have some of
my things packed with his household effects since
he said he owned hardly anything. One day my husband
and | took some boxes of things over to his apartment
before work. {| do not remember the name of the
apartment development in Virginia, ‘but it was the
garden type. His apartment was nice--fairly new
but sparsely furnished. He helped us).unload the things
a.d take them upstairs. Then we parted. |! seem to recal
ine had some trouble witia his car that morning and we
dropped him off at a repair shop on the way to the
office. ; a

At this time, in Washington, Phil was very
pleasant, was nice to.work wit. He did not appear
to be pushy, even though tedid everything he could
to get the Mexican assignment. At this time, despite
his family problems, he did not appear to let these
affect iis work. At least from my position he seemed
to get his work done, not to procrastinate, not to
take a lot of time off. From the gossip I! heard,.
he was separated, and was anxious to get any assignment
overseas. When the possioility of this Olympic job
opened up in Mexico he grabbed it. As | recall, C/WH/ 1
was sympathetic toward nim also, and was happy to be
able to nelp Phil at tnis particular time.

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. ° “In Mexico when PATT*s iouseitokd effects arrived
. he let me know; and as | recall, ne brougit them over
to my iouse and we unloaded them into our apartnent.
We did not go and pick them up. In thanks, we
invited him over to supper one evening. (Willard C.
CURTIS had given permission for individual officers
to have Phil over to dinner if no outsiders were
present and prior permission was obtained.) 1 think
| got permission fron the DCOS at that time, There
were only the three of us (Phil, my husband, and
myself--no maid, no other invited.guests) There was
no discussion of office. My husband knew Phil was with
i ; BKTRUST and was working on the Olympics in Mexico.
Conversation was light. During dinner,. as recall,
we talked about business in Mexico, and he mentioned,
his father was in the dry cleaning business, and
he thought he might be interested in’ bringing into
; Mexico some used dry cleaning equipment which is worth
; .. . - nothing in the United States, and set up some dry
: : ; cleaning: establishments in Mexico... The discussion
was merely in generalities--nothing specific as to
timetable or even if Phil were serious about this.

About a week later Phil brought his car over and
my husband helped him.work on his car--adjusting it
to the altitude, This must have been around September
1997. .

Shortly thereafter, when Laura B. UTSTINE was
in Mexico TDY (she worked in WH/1] and. also knew Phil
at Headquarters), Phil had my husband, me, and UTSTINE
over to his apartment (on Insurgentes Sur just off the
Viaducto) for dinner. It was.a huge. apartment, sparse ky
furnished. We had an enjoyable evening, very light
conversation. Talked mostly about Mexico. At this time
he showed us he nad several bedrooms (forget how many)
and hopefully his sons would be able to visit him.

During his tour in Mexico | only saw Phil tn the
Station occasionally--and then just in passingin the
halls. Once after | heard about Phil's having kidnajec
his boys, | thought |! saw them (can't remember why |
thought they were his) in front of the Embassy with a.
maid. | never saw Phil in the Embassy proper nor at
any Embassy functions (1 was tourist and did not
circulate in the Embassy).

During his toug in Mexico, Phil remained pleasant
but was certainl 465 fiud to talk to. After Phil.
resigned | saw him once. After Jolin PROBERT arrived
as COS, | saw Fhil along the side of the Embassy.

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We just greete:!: Gach other. ne said he heard PRODERT
was coming to Mexico and asked if he were here. He
wanted to call and say sello. | said yes. |
immediately informed PROBERT, and suggested the
latter; read Phil's file at tie Station as.it was

my understanding there was sone proslem about his
resignation, but did not know all the details.

(This was true as personnel matters in the Station s
were kept very close oy tne front office.) 1 do 3
not know if, when, or iow many times PROBERT might a
have met wita Phil. At this time Pnil looked neat q
and well kept, as I recall. iF

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3. SUBJECT'S KNOWLEDGE OF SCALETTI, PROJECTS, OR 4
OPERATIONS IN WHICH SCALETTI PARTICIPATED — a

a). Phil could definitely identify me as a long-
time BKTRUST employee a
b). Phil probably knew that Mexico was my first overseas>
assignment, and possibly.that | had a medical | ‘@
hold vefore. He knew | had~spent Umany years" — q
in Branch |, and was privy to almost everything
going on at the Mexico City Station. He
knew | was assigned to Mexico under tourist
cover but worked inside the Embassy. He knew
my husband was here as a professor at the Universit
of the Americas, and that he did not work for BKTRUS

c). [In Headquarters Phil knew 1 handled mo tlyythe
support projects olus sucr,extras as LICINland
 (LBGLOBE (Goth NOQRA LILINK nad closed down either
just as PhgL ans bee ne Branch, or just before.
just 2s POG Eo REVAANDER, formerly with LILINK)?
was assigned to the Brancn then, and talked with
Phil about Mexico, and possibly about LILINKI*
remember keeping the LPGLOBE material very close,
gz in my own safe, and | do not think Phil know of
wy CLPBLOBE (LIREALM was then in Mexico undes (LPGLOBE),
but may have learned of, (LPRLOBE program afid LIREALM
through Ex-LIADLIB (see paragraph 4).

In Mexico City Phil knew | was in the Cuban section,
and privy to all operations being run against the
Cuban target. He did not know of operations in
particular except possibly LIARM-1 (now terminated)
wiio we hoped to use against the Cuban olympic
target. The Cuban Section tried to talk with Phil
many times about the Cuban delegations to the .
Olympics, but as | recall, C/Cuba only succeeded in

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GETTING Phil to.cone to our end of the hall

a couple of times. | was not in on the
discussions between C/Cuba (Raymond F. FRADYER) i
and Phil, but 1 believe they were mainly held i
to see who Phil nad met who might be useful i
against: tne Cuban target. |. know we thought et_
the time Phil was spending almost. full time on his
overt activities and the SB target, and he gave -

- At-Headquarters ‘in WH/) Phil «shared his cubicle >

.. program) and out to benefit nimself entirely-~
‘ mucn more so titan:

- aS mucn as Pnil, for different reasons. Ex-
- LPADLIB-1] was e@ much more pusia individual, less

with LIAODLIB-1 who was pressing. to get overseas .

exoerienced operationally (right out of tre JOT

Phil 24 LIADLIB-1 went aut of chaane
constantly, talking of (ROC cover)ideas (for nimself)};
and going right to the head of Training or JOT. ....
(can't remember which) and WOMACE on-ideas and ~ “|
suggestions, without ‘necessarily. gotag- through the.
Branch or Division. He nad many business deals on |
the side (one was as a landscaper in Virginia)
and had great prosp egy for business deals in |
Mexico.9; He wangled a 10C) job in Mexico (replacing?
LILINK) ‘and was inserted in the LAGLOBE program white
he knew Phil (1 think this was the’timing.) He was |
also quite open in nis bragging ne had been hired i
as a GS-13 (f think it was) and did not nave to go
up trpuranks. This might heave irritated Pail who

was still a 12. Ex-LIADLIB came to Mexico PCS about
the same time Pnil and | came. Although | rememoer
no close friendshi-. between Ex-LIADLIB and Phil

on the desk, tne fact they sat togetner, were

poth processing out for Mexico, would have meant

they nad sometning in common. Also, LIADLI8 was tnen —
nandling all the projects for CP and leftist ;
penetration operations for tie Station and Base
(Monterrey). Phil would have more than casual
interest in sone of these as some were being handled
in the field by Howard R. BENJAYA, an old friend of
Phil's fron ecador) | do not know that Phil-.and

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Ex-LIADLIB ever met socially in Mexico or not.
1 am quite certain their work paths never crossed,
LIADLIB is still im Mexico. He has had a difficult
time since his "resignation" getting a job,
keeping a job, and making ends meet. It probadly
would be to BKTRUST's disadvantage now for
the two to meet. For this reason, and to assess
ex-LIADLIB-s present state of mind, Headquarters *
sent someone to talk with LIADLIB-1 in the spring
of 1972. At that time he still seemed bitter
against BKTRUST. ‘ a

Other than wishing to make special mention of

. EX-LJADLIB-1, | know of no Agency personnel
other than those in WH/} and. the Mexico City Statio
whom. he knew.

5S. OTHER U.S. GOVERNMENT PERSONNEL
. 1 know of none except the Olympic Attache in Mexico

under whom Agee worked fron July 1967 until the
end of the Olympics.

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